LATEST TELEGRAMS

Southland Times, Issue 1003, 14 August 1868, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS

London, July 7. G-alle, July 15. Sir Charls Darling has written to the Governor of Victoria declining the grant proposed by the Assembly. A complimentary dinner has been given to Sir John Young. The Duke of Edinburgh landed at Portsmouth on the 26th of June, in robust health. He was enthusiastically received everywhere, and is to be feted to-day at the Crystal Palace. The Queen, through the ' Gazette,' order a general thanksgiving lor his happy recovery. The Treason Felony. Bill (of NewSouth Wales) has been returned for amendment.

New South "Wales debentures are quoted at 98, ex div. j Victoria, 111 ; Consols, 95. Australia won the rifle match by two points. Lynch, of Sydney, takes the first prize, Lord Elcho, in the House of Commons, moved for a commission to inquire into the army and navy reserves. The motion was opposed and withdrawn. The army reserve numbers 311,000 men. The Abyssinian captives arrived in England on the 27th of June. Sir Robert Napier arrived in London on the 2nd of July. An address was presented to him on passing through Paris by the English residents. Parliament on the same day unanimously voted thanks to him. Next day Sir Kobert visited the Queen at Windsor, and it is reported that he will be raised to the peerage. ! On July 6, the Princess of Wales gave j birth to a princess. A British frigate is blockading Mazatlan for an insult to the British flag. President Johnson has issued a proclamation, pardoning all the participants in the Southern rebellion. Mr Pope Hennessey is not to be Governor of South Australia. There is some talk of G-overnor Eyre being nominated to that office. The Queen has reviewed 20,000 volunteers at Windsor. The Pope has delivered an allocution denouncing the Austrian measures of reform, and censuring the authorities. He approves of the Duke of Milan being Prince of Servia. The 'Pall Mall Gazette' says Sir Stafford Northcote is reserving the post of Governor-General of India for himself. Mr Gladstone's Suspensory Bill was defeated in the Lords, after a threedays' debate, by a majority of 192 to 97. The revenue for the quarter amounts to eighteen and a quarter millions. It shows a decline of half a million. Arrived. — Niagara, Marpesia, John Duthie, Sarah Nicholson, H.M.S. Galatea, Wellesley, Champion of the Seas, China, Glendower, Lady Bowen, Star Queen, Hengist, and Franklin.